There is a tree – I think it’s the yellow popular tree – that has the nickname ‘ironwood’ because its wood is really that tough to work with. I recall a workman doing work on my parent’s house years ago mentioning that his drill started smoking a bit when he tried to drill holes into a plank of that wood. Tough stuff, that species.

Well, instead of sexbots and their attendant moral problems, can we encourage these guys to go for VR women instead? VR women can be literally any size and shape desired, while a sexbot’s shape would still be constrained by the laws of physics. I mean, there’s a limit to how large the breasts can go and how small the waist can be before the machine falls on its face and breaks in half.

And again, because they wouldn’t be bound by the laws of physics, a VR woman can do any sex act or position wanted without complaint. Unless the guy wants his VR woman to complain; then it would do so to please him. And no AI’s are put into a position where they can be abused so that shouldn’t be a problem there.

Don’t need to have a robutt body or be physically present in order to have a discriminating algorithm like I described, actually! Would it be conscious? I dunno; we can barely even describe what consciousness is right now, so it’s impossible to say. But it’d have the outward features of consciousness, so that suddenly becomes very uncomfortable for me.

The real problem is that, well. If it looks like a woman, and behaves like a woman, but you’re allowed to treat it like a machine, a non-human? That’s training people in a very horrible way.

I’m much more of a kindness-first sort of person. If it behaves in a manner which deserves kindness, it should be given that kindness. Doesn’t matter what it is.

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